Francine Gottfried was an office worker on Wall Street who had very, very
large breasts. When Francine would go out to lunch many Wall Street workers
would point, stare, whistle and hoot. Men would stand on top of cars to get
a glimpse. Francine's efforts to go out for lunch soon made national headlines as hundreds
of male chauvinist pigs in suits gathered around her. This phenomenon was even
covered on national television. Who knows whatever happened to poor Francine.

Joey Skaggs felt compelled to satirize this fixation on breasts. He decided to
hang a fifty foot black brassiere, with two red hearts on each cup, in public.
Skaggs' first thought was to hang it around the Statue of Liberty. But all
attempts failed. He then tried to stretch it across the Wall Street intersection,
but he was removed from a lamp pole, bra in hand, by police officers.

Skaggs' third attempt was successful. During lunch on Valentine's Day, with the
help of friends, he tied one end of the bra to the outstretched arm of the statue
of George Washington in front of the U.S. Treasury building on Wall Street.
He then stretched the bra across the front of the building and tied the other
end to a column. When the flood of workers going to lunch saw what was happening,
they became enraged. Hundreds of men attacked the bra and ripped it to pieces.
Police officers arrived and arrested some of Skaggs' friends, but Skaggs himself
managed to slip away, narrowly averting a big bust.